Nature did not state that you personally should do any particular thing. They only pointed out that travel accounts for 8% of global emissions and growing (and

Nature did not state that you personally should do any particular thing. They only pointed out that travel accounts for 8% of global emissions and growing (and at current carbon emissions levels the world will be altered dramatically and irrevocably). Individual people’s personal sacrifices are barely going to dent global carbon emissions. We need to tackle these enormous global problems systematically. For example, we might be able to substitute less carbon-intensive means of long-distance transportation, impose significant taxes on jet fuel, figure out ways of discouraging business travel by plane, or raise public awareness of closer-to-home vacation destinations.